User:Rayd8

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G'day

My name is Ray and I live in Sydney, Australia, but was born and grew up in Hertfordshire, UK. I first started contributing to Wikipedia in September 2005.

I am a professional astrophysicist, but prefer not to write Wikipedia articles on that as it's too much like work (although I'm happy to help out where necessary). Instead, most of my work in Wikipedia tends to be around the culture of Indigenous Australians, especially Aboriginal Art and Aboriginal Astronomy, and issues facing Indigenous Australians today .

Images which I have contributed (on the right of this page)

Emu in the Sky

Wiradjuri painting of Baiame

Rock engraving of Baiame

Kava sign outside Yirrkala

Lunar orbit

Lunar declination in 2006

Lunar Major Standstills in 2006

New articles or stubs I have created (not redirects or renaming)

• Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
• Big Bill Neidjie
• Caledon Bay
• Caledon Bay Crisis
• Coniston, NT
• Donald Thomson
• Gove land rights case
• Lunar standstill
• Woodah Island
• Yirrkala
• Sydney Rock Engravings
• Australian Aboriginal Astronomy
• Wardaman
• Bidjigal
• Bidjigal Reserve

Articles to which I have substantially contributed:

• Indigenous Australians
• Galarrwuy Yunupingu
• Baiame
• Daramulan
• Indigenous Australian art

Other useful pages (listed here for my own reference!)

• special pages
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Help:editing

My to-do list

• Write article on Bidjigal, Mundoes, Kuwema, Boorong, stone arrangements
• Write Bill Harney article (on both of them with disambiguation)
• Write longer article on Australian Rock Art, including kakadu paintings etc.
• Write article on Panaramitee engravings